Working under the artistic banner De Moi, Czech musician and sound artist Vojtech Vesely has spent years developing a sonic language that blurs the boundaries between sound, time and perception. Forging an ambient sound of reverberation, decaying tones and evolving harmonic textures, his music is a truly immersive experience that doesn’t just fill space but transforms it.
He first made his recorded debut in 2020 with “This Letter of Mine,” the first taste of what would become an expansive and widely celebrated body of work. Followed up with a series of well-received releases across multiple singles, EPs and full-length records, his music has clocked tens of millions of spins on Spotify alone, attesting to the appeal and quality of his artistic output.
Alongside his solo artistic vision, he’s contributed to various projects, including soundtracks for audiobooks like Skoromodlitby and Magorské Modlitby. His sound design has also found a home in tech spaces, with music composed for wellness platforms such as CalmApp and SoundMindApp. While he’s based in Europe, his artistic reach stretches far beyond, particularly connecting with the creative community of Nevada City, California, where in 2023, his installation called The Quint was exhibited in local galleries.
His music is informed by experimental pioneers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Robert Fripp and Pauline Oliveros, influences that guided him toward a study of drones, tape loops and long-decaying harmonics, leading to the development of his own technique; drifting intervals. This method revolves around the gradual merging of musical tones, where individual notes dissolve into each other like bleeding colours, forming a new, continuously evolving soundscape, both hypnotic and fluid, where structure and improvisation meet in perfect harmony.
His latest album, titled Drifting Intervals, fully embraces this concept, using decaying tape loops and deep reverb to create a musical experience that is in constant motion. Across eleven compositions, his visionary approach to music making flourishes, resulting in a release of dreamy, soothing ambient instrumental music that slips the listener into a soporific state.
From the stretching textures on opening track “Drifting Intervals I,” the album gently blossoms with soft tones that gradually unfurl to form a warm atmosphere. As the record flows through the pieces, subtle brightness shines through as airy notes emerge and deep bass textures glide below. Closed with “Drifting Intervals XI,” the floating, ethereal timbre of the swirling tones gently develop before fading out in the final moments of sonic bliss.
Throughout its thirty-five minute run time, Drifting Intervals presents a groundbreaking work of pioneering production and composition from an artist with extraordinary creativity. Working just as well as the soundtrack for reflective moments as it does for thought-provoking active listening, De Moi’s latest artistic work sees him explore the fringes of ambient music, offering an engaging listening of remarkable originality.
Listen to Drifting Intervals below
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